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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 28 – Aftershifter – So You Wanna Be A Chef?

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Simon and Shawn sit down with their good buddy Nick for part 1 of a two-part discussion of life in the culinary industry. The boys go into what it means to be a “chef”, end up swapping Anthony Bourdain stories and never even get to the question that brought them together… Cheers!

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Kitchen Confidential: https://www.amazon.ca/Kitchen-Confidential-Adventures-Culinary-Underbelly/dp/0060899220

Tojo’s Restaurant: https://tojos.com/

Edward Tuson:  https://www.sookenewsmirror.com/obituaries/edward-tuson/

Simon’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knight_baker_simon/

Flavorful Origins: https://netflix.fandom.com/wiki/Flavorful_Origins

Black and Blue Steakhouse: https://blackandbluesteakhouse.ca/vancouver-home/

2019 Post Holiday Gift Guide – Audiobooks About Food

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I know what you’re thinking; “Post-Holiday Gift Guide” sounds like an article that took a little too long in the oven, maybe a deadline or two got missed and now it’s past time to be of any practical Christmas shopping use. Well, I assure you dear reader that I’ve got a good reason why you’re reading this now instead of a week or two prior to the holidays, just stay with me.

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Goodbye Uncle Tony

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If you’re a professional chef or cook, read food blogs or watch TV you already know the bad news. Chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain passed away yesterday morning in a French hotel room while filming his show Parts Unknown. He was 61 year old and left behind a daughter plus a legion of fans and admirers who run the gamut from industry kin to casual TV watchers.

The response has been immediate and overwhelming. Not since Bowie has the social media collective spoken so warmly about the loss of a prominent media figure and I think it’s probably due to the fact that beyond his celebrity status, Tony Bourdain was a really great person. Read More

2017 Holiday Gift Guide: What To Get A Young Prep Cook?

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Continuing our recent trend of posts about mentoring all the fresh new faces joining our industry, I whipped up a Holiday gift guide for this year focused on all the stuff that a brand new cook would need to get started in a kitchen. We’re talking about someone green, first day of culinary school green. Finally made it out of the dishpit and is about to chop their first onion green. Read More

Love The Life: How To Stay Sane In The Culinary Industry

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It was a night like so many others:  A hurricane of twittering servers running to and fro, The Clash blaring from the prep area, orders billowing like Tibetan prayer flags on the line and the hungry ghosts of a hundred tables whispering in my ear that they’re food’s taking too damn long to…

“Y’know, I’m really thinking about taking the Culinary Arts Course at the college… This feels right. I’ve already learned a lot already and I really like this place.” I overhear one of my prep boys debating his future over in no-man’s land and I automatically shout back, “You’re too damn smart for this industry! Go be an undersea wielder or whatever the hell makes more money!”

Everybody has a laugh and goes back to business but as I dug out another plateful of mashed potatoes I hear my own words ringing in my head. It was the same stuff I’d heard before and been told a million times by other, usually older cooks. Now I was the “lifer” on the line: The grizzled old man chiding the younger guys to get out fast and find a better path to fame and fortune far away from the hard slog of kitchen life. Read More